- The cassette application is a retro video player for iOS
- Play random videos from your past to help you rediscover the old moments
- It has a retro style, with a CRT video player and VHS tape boxes
Back before digital videos and long before the iPhones, people would capture videos in analogical tapes of Cassette VHS. The video fragments would be captured in succession and grouped into a single tape reel, which means that when it came to watching an old tape of past years, you never knew which clip would come next.
That randomness and sense of discovery has been captured in a new application of iOS called Cassette, and faithfully restores the fun of watching tapes on an old CRT TV. Whether you lose the old days of VHS or have never experienced them first hand, it is a pleasant distraction and a new way of watching, and rediscovering, videos hidden in your phone.
When cassette loads, you will see a small CRT style TV at the top of the application window, with a lot of cassette tape boxes below. Each is labeled for a year or a collection that has created Apple photos in the application. Select a picture and a tape will arise and insert on the TV, which then reproduces the video.
If you want to see a larger version of the video, all you need to do is touch it. When this happens, you will see it on full screen, with a retro -style text that observes the location, date and time of the video, all in a monkey classic source. It is a real moment for anyone who has experienced images like this in the past years.
Checking the past
A key aspect of the cassette is that the video selection is random. Touch a tape box and the application will choose a video from that collection, and can be supported even more in this idea by selecting the random button on the video player or pressing the Take Me button somewhere, which loads a random video for reading.
You can pay ($ 0.99 per month, $ 5.99 per year, or $ 7.99 for a life pass) to unlock the ability to choose which video reproduces, if you wish. But that randomness is an intentional part of the application offer.
Writing in a blog post, the developer of Cassette explained the motivation behind the creation of the application: “Do you remember the magical days in which we filmed family events in a camcorder? Later, when we placed the VHS tape in the player, we would get a random instantaneous flow over time, a quick clip of a birthday here, a mountain, then 10 minutes of a child of a child, and a child of a child 5 years, and we intend to walk down.
In other words, it is about rediscovering old videos that may not remember, as well as seeing a clips of SHS cape surfaces of the past that would otherwise have been lost among all others stored in a cassette sitting on a dusty shelf.
All that makes the cassette a small fun distraction. I have tried it and they have introduced me with Obligations The highlight, videos of dog dogs that are misbehave, take musicians in a recording studio and much more. Without cassette, these clips would probably have been lost in time among thousands of others on my iPhone, to never see the daylight again. That makes the cassette an entertaining way to visit the past again, both in style and substance.
